General Education

As an important part of your undergraduate education, you will spend approximately
one-third of your college years studying in the General Education (GE) program. The
GE requirement is the "breadth" requirement of your education at SDSU. It is designed
to give you a broad base of knowledge about the world in which you live, how you impact
that world, and how it impacts you. General Education is a place where you are free
to take a broad range of classes, explore new areas of interest, and begin to formulate
ideas about what you might like to choose as a major.

The GE program has four major objectives: (1) to develop your intellectual capabilities
necessary to the enterprise of learning; (2) to introduce you to modes of thought
characteristics of diverse academic disciplines; (3) to help you understand the conditions
and forces that shape you as a human being and influence your life; and (4) to help
you apply critical and informed judgments to the achievements of your own and other
cultures.

SDSU's General Education requirements consist of 49 semester units.

Communications and Critical Thinking (9 units)

Foundations (31 units)

Natural Sciences and Quantitative Reasoning

Social and Behavioral Sciences

Humanities

Explorations (9 units)

Each section of the GE program has specific educational objectives and courses designed
to meet these objectives.

Courses in Section I, Communication and Critical Thinking, are designed to develop
your skills in the areas of written and oral communication, and in reasoning.

Courses in Section II, Foundations, use the skills developed in Section I, and provide
an introduction to various areas of study. The knowledge you gain in Foundations will
help prepare you to live in our multicultural society.

Section III, Explorations, courses are upper division and cannot be used to fulfill
this requirement if taken before you reach junior standing (passing 60 units). Explorations
courses build on the knowledge you gained in the first three sections, and provide
more specialized or thematic study in the disciplines included in Foundations.